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still ahead, how smithsonian scientists are helping preserve the past. >>> all your facebook friends aren't really your friends. the social network's warning to keep you from being scammed. >>> but rst, here's a quick check of our rundown. the news edge at 11:00 is coming right back. >>> if republicans want an i'm sorry, -- [ inaudible ] the floartd lawmaker subjected the g.o.p.'s health care plan calls for americans to die quickly if they get sick. >> what it really means when you get down to it is that the republicans plan for health care is don't get sick. if you unfortunately do get sick and can't afford to pay those bills, their answer for that is die quickly. it a heartless approach to public policy and i think it should ends. >> a a result republican lawmakers introduced a resolution of disapproval today similar to the one issued against republican joe wilson for this outburst during the president's speech. >>> it is a final resting place for members of congress. vice presidents, even former f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover. the congressional cemetery has fallen i
still ahead, how smithsonian scientists are helping preserve the past. >>> all your facebook friends aren't really your friends. the social network's warning to keep you from being scammed. >>> but rst, here's a quick check of our rundown. the news edge at 11:00 is coming right back. >>> if republicans want an i'm sorry, -- [ inaudible ] the floartd lawmaker subjected the g.o.p.'s health care plan calls for americans to die quickly if they get sick....
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the original balloon boy talks about an experience 78 years ago that even had the smithsonian taking note. >>> our salute today is for a marine who is going to turn 21 tomorrow. he has been in afghanistan since may. to celebrate his 21st birthday, started a 21-day charity bike ride to build money to build a home. she misses shane and can't wait until he comes home. do you have someone in the service and you want to salute them? go to cnn.com/robin. >>> this morning at least one woman was killed after two suicide attacks at a university in pakistan. at least six people were injured. the blasts happened at the international islamic university in pakistan's capital. more than 12,000 students from all over the world go to school there. criminal charges could be filed next week against the man at the center of the balloon boy incident. richard heene has been in trouble with the law at least once before. correspondent richard lui joins us now. okay. so what's he done before? >>> robin, he was arrested in 1997. the l.a. city's attorney's office says he pled no contest to vandalism. he was c
the original balloon boy talks about an experience 78 years ago that even had the smithsonian taking note. >>> our salute today is for a marine who is going to turn 21 tomorrow. he has been in afghanistan since may. to celebrate his 21st birthday, started a 21-day charity bike ride to build money to build a home. she misses shane and can't wait until he comes home. do you have someone in the service and you want to salute them? go to cnn.com/robin. >>> this morning at least...
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the smithsonian loop will stop service for the weekend. but the wisconsin of a route will stay. >>> if you have a lead not is probably one application you need for that cell phone. it is the app that helps you avoid tickets for speeding or talking on your phone. critics say it could lead to trouble. anita vogel is telling us more. >> there is a red light camera. >> reporter: austin powers and arnold schwarzenegger can save you from a traffic ticket. this one is $400. >> reporter: that is why this free service called trapster is one of the most downloaded mobile applications around with 200 million users who have signed up. >> it is a way for people to share information about police speed traps and red light cameras and speed cameras. >> i think it is a good idea. it keeps people, their eyes on the road. >> the less distractions the better. i think people are terrible drivers to begin with especially in los angeles. >> i stopped you from using your cell phone while driving. >> reporter: the california highway patrol hands out tickets for ta
the smithsonian loop will stop service for the weekend. but the wisconsin of a route will stay. >>> if you have a lead not is probably one application you need for that cell phone. it is the app that helps you avoid tickets for speeding or talking on your phone. critics say it could lead to trouble. anita vogel is telling us more. >> there is a red light camera. >> reporter: austin powers and arnold schwarzenegger can save you from a traffic ticket. this one is $400....
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. >> reporter: and so the kids can -- and you've done this before at the smithsonian? >> yes, i have. >> reporter: and the kids get to do what? take us through the process. >> they usthis foam plate and assimilates a printing block and just draw a simple picture and it's a great way to teach them about block printing and that you have to write backwards which kids like to do and then bring the picture over here and i've made this for you. >> reporter: look at that. all right. >> and hopefully it will work. >> reporter: and this is just ink? >> this is a water based block printing ink. and they're going to roll the ink on the picture. >> reporter: how long have you been doing this kind of art? >> i've been doing this for about -- block printing for about ten years, art my whole life. >> reporter: and she'sbeen doing it her whole life because her mom is an artist who works at torpedo factory. so this is wh you know. this is where you grew up. >> this is what i know. >> reporter: and you are a huge advocate of kids in art. >> absolutely. i worked with kids a lot and activ
. >> reporter: and so the kids can -- and you've done this before at the smithsonian? >> yes, i have. >> reporter: and the kids get to do what? take us through the process. >> they usthis foam plate and assimilates a printing block and just draw a simple picture and it's a great way to teach them about block printing and that you have to write backwards which kids like to do and then bring the picture over here and i've made this for you. >> reporter: look at that....
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it is last day to use the smithsonian national mall loop. it will resoom in the spring next year. there are changes from the woodly park and adams morgan mcpherson square route route. the president and mrs. obama celebrated their first wedding anniversary since moving into the white house. they celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary. they married in 1992 in chicago. now let's get a check of the forecast with dave. good morning, dave. >> good morning. it is a magnificent morning here in the nation's capital. here is a live shot from our tower. take you out to maryland. 56 degrees. we were in the 40's. things are improving. yesterday we made it up to 77 at reagan national airport. today high pressure is building in. we should be right where we should be. seasonal average is 73. keep in mind it will be breezy out there, winds out of the west 10-15-mile-per-hour. looking ahead to the week, what a perfect october week we have. temperatures around the 70-degree mark. lots of sunshine today and tomorrow. late tuesday, rain coming our way. clouds on wednesday and high pressure thursday
it is last day to use the smithsonian national mall loop. it will resoom in the spring next year. there are changes from the woodly park and adams morgan mcpherson square route route. the president and mrs. obama celebrated their first wedding anniversary since moving into the white house. they celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary. they married in 1992 in chicago. now let's get a check of the forecast with dave. good morning, dave. >> good morning. it is a magnificent morning here in...
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. >> jimmy: it's in the smithsonian right now. [ laughter ] >> they're selling it across the street at christie's. >> jimmy: oh, my god. i got to go. i got to put my bid in. wait, so, tell people about "whip it." so they know what it's about. >> well, you know, it's a total joy ride and a celebration of life and a comedy and it's got action and -- but i really -- the important thing for me was to put heart into it. and the movies i grew up watching, you know, they really respected the characters. and, you know, they had emotions and they went through stuff with their families and their friends gave them tough love. and, you know, it's just, like, life, you know? life has, like, great emotion and has great laughter. >> jimmy: you get that. >> and you just -- i tried to basically greedily, cohesively put everything i've collected my entire life and heart into one movie. >> jimmy: wow, my god! [ cheers and applause ] very good. now, can you tell everybody what the movie is about. >> oh. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: but i do -- i got to say, it was so fun because you have all the things in there
. >> jimmy: it's in the smithsonian right now. [ laughter ] >> they're selling it across the street at christie's. >> jimmy: oh, my god. i got to go. i got to put my bid in. wait, so, tell people about "whip it." so they know what it's about. >> well, you know, it's a total joy ride and a celebration of life and a comedy and it's got action and -- but i really -- the important thing for me was to put heart into it. and the movies i grew up watching, you know,...
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. >> with hope from the smithsonian, they are working to preserve the remaining vaults. nineteen members. the keyworth family are buried here, some in old wooden coffins dating back to 1838. over time, the coffins collapsed on each other so works removed the wood and carefully sort through remains. in this case, their work reveals a tibia or shinbone. in another vault, the iron coffin of a child. >> this was an expensive coffin in its day. >> reporter: the work is done with the permission of the families. crews are not just preserving what is here. they are also respecting it. >> these are human remains. these were people. they had good days like us, they had bad days. >> just like you can read a book, if you are expensed in this field and you work on it all the time, you can read a skeleton. >> reporter: the remains will be separated and each set will be returned to an individual grave. that is after stonemasons have made their repairs. now, a lot of the work being done is happening right along the ceremonial walkway. if you were buried here, odds are you were among was
. >> with hope from the smithsonian, they are working to preserve the remaining vaults. nineteen members. the keyworth family are buried here, some in old wooden coffins dating back to 1838. over time, the coffins collapsed on each other so works removed the wood and carefully sort through remains. in this case, their work reveals a tibia or shinbone. in another vault, the iron coffin of a child. >> this was an expensive coffin in its day. >> reporter: the work is done with...
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. >> reporter: kerry is the deputy director and chief cure rater at the smithsonian's museum which has lent the obamas nine pieces of art with two bronze cast works from the turn of the last century and this bold painting. there are also striking works from african-american artists. this painting, called "black light me number two" is made up of words. there are also two works from the late d.c. painter alma thomas. one called "sky light" from 1973. the other is called "watusi" from 1963. >> i think they've chosen a rather hip approach. they were able to bring a variety of things together and introduce different periods together which most people wouldn't think of doing but the obamas seem to be open to art all the way from daga to the latest contemporary fires. >> reporter: the obamas borrowed dozens of pieces from galleries and museums around the district -- the national gallery of art has lent these modern pieces. visitors say they like the obamas' break from tradition and their choices. >> they're different. i like it. >> knowing those are in the white house is something that can b
. >> reporter: kerry is the deputy director and chief cure rater at the smithsonian's museum which has lent the obamas nine pieces of art with two bronze cast works from the turn of the last century and this bold painting. there are also striking works from african-american artists. this painting, called "black light me number two" is made up of words. there are also two works from the late d.c. painter alma thomas. one called "sky light" from 1973. the other is called...
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his flight was a big enough deal for the smithsonian air and space museum to make a record of it. i didn't know there was an original balloon boy. we have more details surrounding the night of a connecticut football player was killed. the community still grieving and certainly the family. >> and i have no idea how these players are going to go forward on saturday and actually play a football game against west virginia. well the team's head coach says that at least two teammates were with jasper howard the night he was killed. now one of them held howard in his arms as he lay there dying while another player gave the kid first aid. the coach says those two players more than likely will be excused from suiting up against the game against west virginia. a 19-year-old named bryan parker was also stabbed in the melee. there's going to be events every day on campus to remember him. >>> lebron james apparently had a cancer scare. doctors discovered a growth in his jaw in january. they did a biopsy. he did have surgery to remove the growth in june and it was benign. that was after their s
his flight was a big enough deal for the smithsonian air and space museum to make a record of it. i didn't know there was an original balloon boy. we have more details surrounding the night of a connecticut football player was killed. the community still grieving and certainly the family. >> and i have no idea how these players are going to go forward on saturday and actually play a football game against west virginia. well the team's head coach says that at least two teammates were with...
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now the smithsonian is planning to preserve a piece of that history. >>> the black woman's health study just got a big financial boost that's making news in our new segment called "what matters," our partnership with "essence" magazine where we take a look at news making headlines in the african-american community that affects all of us. the national cancer institute has awarded boston university school of medicine $9.1 million to extend this study. this is what it does. the study followed 59,000 women from around the country since 2005 to see how breast cancer and other diseases like diabetes and lupus affect black women. >>> the smithsonian is planning to preserve a piece of civil rights history, the casket that once held the body of emmett till will be donated to be displayed at the national museum of african-american history and culture expected to open in washington, d.c. in 2015. emmett till was 14 years old when he was lynched and mutilated in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman in mississippi. his body was exhumed in 2005 and later reburied in a new casket outside of c
now the smithsonian is planning to preserve a piece of that history. >>> the black woman's health study just got a big financial boost that's making news in our new segment called "what matters," our partnership with "essence" magazine where we take a look at news making headlines in the african-american community that affects all of us. the national cancer institute has awarded boston university school of medicine $9.1 million to extend this study. this is what it...
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. >> the smithsonian is offering buyouts to all of its 6,200 employees. the offer's being extended to federal employees and workers who are paid from private trust funds. it's part of the institution's new strategic plan. the buyouts are completely voluntary and employees have until november 6th to request them. >>> and the head of the bank of america is stepping down. ken lewis will retire as its chief executive by the end of the year. he'll also be leaving its board of directors. lewis and bank of america have come under fire for its acquisition of merrill lynch. new york state attorney general andrew cuomo is looking into that deal and says lewis' announcement won't impact the investigation. >> well, this morning there's an inresting debate regarding the swine flu. some parents are intentionally exposing their children to that virus. they're arguing that it builds a natural immunity to the sickness, but many officials are warning against that. brady smith reports. >> reporter: doug beardsley says intentionally putting children in an environment where t
. >> the smithsonian is offering buyouts to all of its 6,200 employees. the offer's being extended to federal employees and workers who are paid from private trust funds. it's part of the institution's new strategic plan. the buyouts are completely voluntary and employees have until november 6th to request them. >>> and the head of the bank of america is stepping down. ken lewis will retire as its chief executive by the end of the year. he'll also be leaving its board of...
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the original balloon boy talks about an experience 78 years ago that even got the smithsonian's attention. d d d d d d d d d d d >>> it looks like investigators are close to making an arrest in the stabbing death of a university of connecticut football star. investigators say that police told them they intend to take the man into custody soon. >>> school lunches need fewer fries and more fruits, veggies and whole grains. schools are now following the guidelines and need to update their standards, but the researchers say all that could raise some of the cost up 20%. >>> the father of anna nicole smith's daughter says he was forced to beef up the testimony about the amount she had. birkhead claims a prosecutor told him his daughter might be affected by smith's drug use. >>> those are some of the headlines we're following this morning. >>> good morning. it's 31 minutes past the hour. morning, sunshine. i'm robin meade. >>> so vaccines for the swine flu are slowly starting to trickle into the country. health officials were only giving it out to high-risk patients like babies, pregnant women a
the original balloon boy talks about an experience 78 years ago that even got the smithsonian's attention. d d d d d d d d d d d >>> it looks like investigators are close to making an arrest in the stabbing death of a university of connecticut football star. investigators say that police told them they intend to take the man into custody soon. >>> school lunches need fewer fries and more fruits, veggies and whole grains. schools are now following the guidelines and need to...
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. >>> the smithsonian's national museum of african-american history and culture just got a $10 million boost. the bill and made lynn came gates foundation is donating the money to assume the design and construction of the new museum. said to break ground in 2012 and expected to open in 2015. construction could cost as much as $500 million. congress has agree to payd to pay iffor half of that. >>> and at the stroke of midnight tonight michael jackson's "this is it" movie begin as two week run in theaters all around the world. it's a documentary created from a lot of footage that was shot in the days before he died in june. he was preparing you know for the summer concert series in london. the clips show him rehearseing, very complicated dance moves and routines in the clips that we see, they're brief, but he does appear to be in good health. of course there's controversy surrounding the film. in touch talks about what fans are saying about its rehe's. >> the fans are saying this is not it and they have set up a website called this is not it.com claiming that the big mystery left for mic
. >>> the smithsonian's national museum of african-american history and culture just got a $10 million boost. the bill and made lynn came gates foundation is donating the money to assume the design and construction of the new museum. said to break ground in 2012 and expected to open in 2015. construction could cost as much as $500 million. congress has agree to payd to pay iffor half of that. >>> and at the stroke of midnight tonight michael jackson's "this is it"...